it’s been over 10 years now. Thus, there are actually quite a few apps that achieved true popular over the years. Many call it the three comma club, the over one billion downloads mark is one of the rarest achievements an app can have. There are over a dozen Google apps with this distinction, including popular apps like Gmail and YouTube. However, these lists always have a ton of Google apps and pre-installed apps. It’s fairly common knowledge that Google apps are the most common apps on Android anyway, so let’s not include them and look at the rest of the field instead. Here are the 15 most common apps for Android! The download numbers are estimates, by the way, and not 100% factually accurate numbers. If you want to see our sources, we have them linked at the end of the article. Check out more stats here!15 best Android apps of 2019!A look at the billion-install club: the most installed apps Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp (estimated 15 billion)Price: … [Read more...] about 15 most common apps and games that aren’t pre-installed!

Kotlin, the Google-endorsed programming language for building Android apps, now has the fastest-growing population of contributors on Microsoft-owned code-hosting repository GitHub. Google made Kotlin a 'first-class' language last year, alongside already officially supported Java and C++. The move offered Google an avenue to sidestep Java issues on Android and has helped propel Kotlin's use by Android developers, which is reflected in GitHub's 2018 Octoverse report. According to GitHub, the number of contributors using Kotlin to build projects has more than doubled in the past year, making it the fastest-growing language of all. Google recently ramped up its support for Kotlin, teaming up with its main sponsor, IDE developer JetBrains, to launch the the Kotlin Foundation and the Google Cloud hosted Kotlin portal. As Google noted at the time, 27 percent of the top 1,000 Android apps on Google Play use the language, among them Twitter, Slack, and Netflix. The purpose of the … [Read more...] about Microsoft’s GitHub: ‘Kotlin for Android now fastest-growing programming language’